A sister has taken a loan from the bank by keeping her gold jewelry as a mortgage. Does she has to pay zakah on this mortgaged gold?

Riba, Zakat
22 Apr

ANSWER: It is prohibited to take interest based loan from a bank. The gold and silver kept with the bank as mortgage is still zakatable.

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Some money was being collected as Sadaqah for a brother. I committed to an amount to the one who was collecting, and he paid the amount to the brother (Money still with me).Later it was told to us that the brother is eligible for Zakah. Can I ‘change’ my intention to have this counted as Zakah from me, coz earlier I didn’t have this intention as we didn’t know.

Zakat
22 Apr

ANSWER: No this is not permissible. You cannot change the intention now, intention should have been prior to commitment. 

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Is it permissable to use zakath money to build a well to obtain water for a rural community as an ongoing charity.

Zakat
21 Apr

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible.  Zakat must be given in cash to poor and needy Muslims and they will do whatever they want with it. 

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I’ve been working as a freelancer since 2011 neither I know to pay zakat on money nor I remember how much money I had by end of every past year but after 2017 I have money in bank by end of year and I decided in 2018 to pay zakat on my money in 2019 around august.so as far i do not remember the past years in which i dont remember my money what should I do for years before 2017.Im afraid now

Zakat
18 Apr

ANSWER: You must look at all the bank statements of these past years and must pay zakat for all these years if the savings reached or was above nisab and you must repent sincerely to Allah as zakat is one of the pillars of Islam and you cannot be so easy about not fulfilling this […]

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Syeikh, how to do dua when sujood? , do we do it while reciting “subhanarabiyyal a’la” at the same time we thinking our wishes until enough? or we can recite our wishes in arabic after “subhanarabiyyal a’la” 3 times ? And it is same with sujood tilawah?

Prayer
17 Apr

ANSWER: You say the prescribed dhikr (Subhana Rabbiyal aala) and THEN make dua by moving your tongue and lips. You can make it in your own language as well, providing you don’t know how to make that particular dua in Arabic. https://youtu.be/hYToZVeAl20

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Quick question: why is it hard for Muslims go establish prayer? I mean I know it’s hard to wake up for Fajr at times or most of time due to sleep but then why is it hard for Muslims to establish prayers in daytime when they awake? Some don’t have anything to do but still won’t pray. It’s only 5 minutes then y is it so hard when ppl work upto 16 hrs a day?

Prayer
17 Apr

ANSWER: This is because Satan has taken over their minds and lives and they are too ignorant and weak to fight him, so they join his group.

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If I pray alone in home without giving iqamah then how the time of aacceptance of dua between adhan and iqamah will be counted?

Prayer, Supplications
14 Apr

ANSWER: It is the time between athan and the time you stand up for prayer. 

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When I learnt about moving the finger in Tashshahud, I started doing so diligently. Recently I heard, that once Rasul Allah ﷺ was praying and a jinn came to him, so he started moving his finger to drive him away…. So that was just one incident. Hence we shouldn’t move our finger! So which one is true now?

Prayer
12 Apr

ANSWER: Such a story is baseless and not authentic. 

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A sheikh from the hanafi madhab told me if you have prayed a rakah before the sunrise the prayer is not in time until you have made the taslim before the sunrise. Is there this opinion? Are there differet opinions between the scholars?

Prayer
11 Apr

ANSWER: This is not true. Whoever offers one Rakah before the end of time, his prayer is valid. 

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Is it true that it is sunnah to recite Surah Kafirun and Surah Ikhlas in the sunnah of maghrib salah?

Prayer
11 Apr

ANSWER: Yes, this is authentic Sunnah and also in Fajr sunnah as well.

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